We Shall Not Be Moved

How Wimbledon Fans Beat the Football Association

In May 2002 the FA allowed Wimbledon FC to be airlifted from its community and moved 70 miles away to Milton Keynes. This is the remarkable story of how Ivor Heller led a group of fans to fight back, to stop their beloved club from being taken away. We Shall Not Be Moved is his deeply personal story, and one any football fan will be interested in.

Celebrating 25 years of AFC Wimbledon.

On May 28, 2002, the most-shameful decision ever taken in the history of English football was rubber stamped. A three-man commission, appointed by the FA, allowed Wimbledon FC to be airlifted from its community and moved 70 miles away to Milton Keynes. It was footballs crime of the century, a theft like nothing the game had ever experienced. The FA could have stopped it, but chose not to. Instead, they facilitated it and told Wimbledon fans to abandon any thoughts of relaunching a new club